Strong Global Plastics Treaty Now

Sign the petition to help stop ocean plastic pollution!

Australia’s oceans and beaches are choking on plastic pollution. We urgently need a strong Global Plastics Treaty!

Over 250 kg of plastic leaks into Australia’s environment every minute.¹ There are now up to 40,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre on the most polluted parts of Australia’s coastline.²

The less plastic humans produce, the less plastic ends up polluting our beaches and oceans.³

Right now, we have a unique opportunity to end plastic pollution here in Australia and around the world. Hundreds of countries are negotiating a Global Plastics Treaty. The plastics treaty could create new binding laws to tackle the growing plastic pollution crisis. But it’s at risk of failing.

Over 99% plastics are made from fossil fuels.⁴ Some oil-producing nations and plastic industry lobbyists are stalling Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.

So far, the Australian Government has taken a strong position in global negotiations. We need them to keep going.

Sign your name to call on the Australian Government to remain strong and negotiate a Global Plastics Treaty that the oceans and people of the world desperately need.

References

1. O’Farrell, K., Harney, F., & Chakma, P. (2021). Australian Plastics Flows and Fates Study 2019-20 – National Report. Prepared for the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
2. Hardesty, B. D., Lawson, T., van der Velde, T., Lansdell, M., & Wilcox, C. (2016). Estimating quantities and sources of marine debris at a continental scale. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(1), 18–25.
3.Cowger, W., Willis, K. A., Bullock, S., Conlon, K., Emmanuel, J., Erdle, L. M., Eriksen, M., Farrelly, T. A., Hardesty, B. D., Kerge, K., Li, N., Li, Y., Liebman, A., Tangri, N., Thiel, M., Villarrubia-Gómez, P., Walker, T. R., & Wang, M. (2024). Global producer responsibility for plastic pollution. Science Advances, 10(17).
4.CIEL. (2019). Fossil Fuels & Plastic.